Save the dates

July 12, 2008

Mark your calendar, and plan now to attend the Sharpsburg Heritage Festival, scheduled for September 13 and 14, 2008 (the Battle Anniversary weekend), and the next SHAF Workday on the battlefield, Saturday, November 1st, 2008.

Advance notice for the Heritage Festival (via Herald-Mail):

The Sharpsburg Heritage Festival will take place Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 13 and 14. The venues will include the fire hall/Emergency Services Parking Lot, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Christ Reformed United Church of Christ and a few individually requested backyards.

Plans are being made for extra parking with a shuttle service. Activities will include two days of live music, demonstrations of Civil War-era dances, historic home tours, an agricultural display area, historic craft demonstrations, history displays and lectures by experts in local history.

For further information or to get involved, please call festival chairman Paige Phifer at 301-432-4631 or publicity chairman Delancy Catlett at 301-223-8386.

SHAF logo in white

SHAF has been preserving and protecting historic sites related to the Battle of Antietam, the Maryland Campaign, and other Civil War activity in the region since 1986. We need your help to keep it going.

Col. Strong's horse

Antietam Witness

The number of dead horses was high. They lay, like the men, in all attitudes. One beautiful milk-white animal had died in so graceful a position that I wished for its photograph. Its legs were doubled under and its arched neck gracefully turned to one side, as if looking back to the ball-hole in its side. Until you got to it, it was hard to believe the horse was dead.


- Alpheus Williams

September 22, 1862